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With all the craziness of announcing our news Valentines Day lost a LITTLE bit of importance to me this year. It was more important than any other day in my life but not necessarily because of the holiday... I honestly would not have been too upset if Nu'u did nothing BUT, I cannot believe how much effort my husband put in to LITERALLY his first Valentines day ever. Member he's from Tonga? Yeah they don't celebrate most of "American" holidays. He heard about Valentines for the first time on his mission! So even then he didn't really know how it works cause obviously on his mission he wasn't catering to a girl! Haha so anyway, he says to me the night before "I hope you're not expecting anything bit tomorrow, you do remember it's my first Valentines?" And of course I tried to comfort him by saying I know, I'm not expecting much. What do you even do for boys? I bought him tickets to Boys2Men in Vegas this Friday but other than that I did

February 5, 2014 I knew 3 things for sure. I was 2 days late on my period. I had been cramping for 4 (which usually only happens for 2 before I start). And we tried ONCE! (once meaning one cycle) My husband left for the gym at about 9:30-45 and I was leaving the house at 11 ish to go to the temple with Karyssa Lytle. When I got out of the shower I planned on taking the test but due to emptying my bladder before taking a shower I couldn't pee! HA! Just my luck. I didn't want my husband to know I was gonna take the test so I put everything away and headed off to the temple! Of course I couldn't keep my mouth shut and told Karyssa what I was thinking about and that there was a chance! So leaving the temple she reminded me again to go right home, take the test, and let her know! haha When I got home from the temple I had about a half an hour to get ready for the UNLV game against Boise State. So I ran in to the bathroom, took the test out of the box and went to take it in

Soooooo check me out! Haha When I was going to school in Utah for esthetics I got the opportunity to get certified in lash extensions. When I first learned I didn't practice much because it wasn't a personal interest of mine so it was hard for me to sell. When I moved up to Provo to finish school and was exposed to it more I started to love it. Realizing how well it does for other people and how much money you can make doing it was awesome. So at school I got the opportunity to practice some more. When I got out of school I had lost my glue and not done any extensions in a long time. I had someone contact me to ask me about a recommendation for the best price to go get lash extensions and of course I said my house! Kind of out of sarcasm but realizing that this may be a good idea I decided to order some new glue! Then of course when the glue came in I posted it on instagram and told people to come make an app with me. That didn't take very long to happen! Since then I hav

We had the privilege to witness an apostle for our Stake Conference on Sunday! Wow. What a meeting it was!  President Teshima addressed us first. Then the Stake Relief Society President, then the mission presidents wife, then the first counselor in the temple presidency, THEN president Holland. It was an AMAZING talk and I wish it was recorded like general conference so I could read it over and over again! He had 3 main points and my favorite was "You can't argue with the evidence" in reference to the gospel and the Book of Mormon. He gave an amazing talk and ended with pronouncing a blessing upon our entire stake to have the righteous desires of our own and our loved ones hearts to be granted. There were a ton of people there and it was such a blessing to be able to hear an apostle of The Lord speak to us.  

Well, all week I thought that this post was gonna be super fun to write up. Boy was I wrong. I have been a Denver Bronco fan since I was 13 years old. Die hard. If you think about the last 15 years for the broncos.....they haven't been all flowers and sunshine. We've had some tough years, back to back QB changes like 5 times, in and out of good games and bad ones. We haven't made it to the Super Bowl in 15 years. Needless to say, this year was a SUPER pleasant year to be a Bronco fan! We had the chance to sit back and let Peyton ride. Breaking countless amounts of records for his career and for the franchise. It was awesome! Going in to the Super Bowl game Sunday I knew that the Seahawks were a tough team. I was sure it was going to be a good game and that the best team was gonna win. The best offense against the best defense, the question was what about the opposite sides. They would be the deal breaker. Well no one prepared for this. A safety on THE first play of the game

So the sevens tournament comes to Vegas every year and this year I couldn't have been more excited! My husband has played rugby most of his life and I never even knew what a match looked like till I went to Tonga for the first time!  Soon after we got married, he got in to a club here in Vegas at the Las Vegas Rugby academy. I've had the pleasure to watch a couple of his practices and try to figure the game out all by myself! (I still don't get it).  A few weeks ago we got to travel to California for rugby, remember? I got to watch him play all day Saturday. So when the sevens tournament was in town he got the chance to play in the smaller pools!  With the pups at the tournament all day Friday!  His team made it all the way to the semi-finals of their pool! Then of course we got to go home and change and get ready for the big matches! The world matches at the stadium! We got to watch matches between Fiji and Australia, USA, Samoa, Portugal, South Africa, and of course my hu

When I was in 6th grade I went to my first concert. I have always listened to country music because my dad got me into it when I was really young. I loved Shania Twain back then and I still do. For Christmas last year I didn't know what to get my mom. I wanted to get her tickets to a show. Then I remember that Shania just started her new show in town!  So I bought tickets. Two of them. She asked me to go and of course I said yes! I wanted to get the show for the night of moms birthday but the show didn't start back up until January 22 because she was home for her Christmas break!  So Thursday, January 23, I took my mom to see Shania! She texted me a week or two before to inform me she had made dinner reservations at her favorite restaurant! Joe's! I was super excited for that. We went shopping the week before and I bought a super cute flowy shirt that I love!  So that night we went to Joe's for dinner and ate some delicious food! Then it was time for the show! I was SOO